Hi, As a preamble, let me say that I am not complaining about Tomcat (as the problem root cause is uncertain) and I don't expect much assistance as we are happy with our workaround. However, our experience could help others or someone may have other ideas.
We have recently switched a stable web application from JRun 4 to Tomcat 5.5.20 on Windows 2003 + Sun's JRE 1.5.0_08, running some testing for months, but when we moved to production environment we immediately experienced errors IllegalStateException: No modifications are allowed to a locked ParameterMap. Stack trace analysis concluded to RequestFacade objects shared between 2 threads. We made code reviews of our application code and Tomcat's code and did not find any thread safety issues. So, we checked all differences between staging and production, we thought that the major difference was that the staging server was a single CPU machine while the production servers had 2 physical processors and 4 logical ones. So, we constrained the Tomcat service to run on only one processor by setting its processor affinity mask to 1 (run on CPU 0) and after several weeks of monitoring we concluded that it "fixed" the problem. So, we used a small utility (search for setaffinity.zip) to patch the affinity mask in the Tomcat service executable (tomcat5.exe). Later on, we set up a second production environment also on bi-processor servers but we did not experience the same issue. The hardware is not exactly the same as first production setup and the OS is also different (Windows 2000 on 2nd env, Windows 2003 on 1st env having the issue). So, I don't believe it's a Tomcat, I would rather think to an H/W, or JRE or OS issue. In any case, it's a rather complex issue to investigate and we haven't enough time for this as we are happy with performances running on one single CPU. Thanks, Gael Marziou Hewlett Packard --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
